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U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller poses for a photo next to flowers planted on top of a U.S. bomb shell during a visit to a mines and bombs museum in Vietnam's central Quang Tri province, March 2, 2015. Gottemoeller is in Vietnam to observe U.S.-funded efforts to survey and clear Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs) of war. Quang Tri province in the central of Vietnam, the former demilitarized zone during the war between 1955 and 1975, is one of the most contaminated areas in the world. UXOs have killed and injured more than 8000 people in Quang Tri, even after the war ended 40 years ago. Ten percent of the 15.4 tons of ammunition used during the Vietnam war failed to explode, according to U.K. based Mines Advisory Group (MAG). As many as 100 UXOs are found every day around Quang Tri in both residential and farming land. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)